The Journey Home: Paying It Forward

by Gracie Guy

When Lainey Corbin was a child growing up in the mid-west, she learned that those who loved her also left her. So, when she bolted from her own marriage, it didn’t matter how many people were hurt. But that was a younger Lainey. The woman of today finally recognized the value of a solid relationship and the virtues of small-town life and she was going back to make things right with her ex-husband’s family, and she knows they won’t be happy to see her.

Jason Daley has spent years working with large equipment – first as an operator, now as an owner of an equipment rental business. He has loved living in the same rural town in upstate New York his entire life. For some people that might seem boring, but it suited him just fine, except for one thing – he had no social life. Most of the local women had been snatched up just out of high school. And as a business owner who started each day before sunrise, Albany was too far away for nighttime socializing. Then one day he holds the door at Angie’s Deli for a stunning blonde who seems vaguely familiar. Mesmerized by her slight mid-Western accent, he vows to find out more about her and convince her to stay in his hometown.